On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com> wrote:
> Its fairly easy to break. Just do a parallel import with say, 16 concurrent tables being written to at once. Result? Fragmented tables.
>
Fwiw I did do some investigation about this at one point and could not
demonstrate any significant fragmentation. But that was on Linux --
different filesystem implementations would have different success
rates. And there could be other factors as well such as how full the
fileystem is or how old it is.
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greg